May 8, 2012

Many of us keep our Windows systems up to date, well at the very least, all of our Microsoft applications. I mean Microsoft makes it fairly easy don't they? Just turn your automatic updates on and be done with it. What about your non-microsoft applications? Java, Flash, etc. Those need to be updated too. I mean having an out of date Java install can leave your computer open to all sorts of malware.

Manually updating all of your software every month isn't very practical is it. Also, it can be annoying when those applications have many updates being released all the time (I'm looking at you Adobe!) Wouldn't it be nice to have a tool that can keep all of your software up to date kind of like running apt-get upgrade in Ubuntu? Well now you can with Appupdater!

From their page:

Appupdater provides advanced functionality to Windows, similar to apt-get or yum on Linux. It automates the process of installing and maintaining up to date versions of programs. It is fully customizable for use in a corporate environment.

The one draw back to this program in my opinion is that it doesn;t have a scheduler option. You can't set this thing to automatically update your applications for you. You will have to manually run this tool every month to make sure your software is up to date, which doesn't sound that bad, but we are all lazy at heart.

Know of any other programs like this? Are they free? Can they be scheduled? Let us know in this comments!